List of national teams with no FIFA Women's World Cup appearances
The FIFA Women's World Cup is an international women's association football competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The first tournament took place in 1991 and it has occurred every four years since then.
Every Women's World Cup tournament has involved a qualification phase to determine which teams qualify for the tournament itself, often referred to as the Women's World Cup finals (as distinct from the Women's World Cup final, which refers to the final match of the tournament, played to determine the overall winners). 177 of the 211 current FIFA affiliates have not appeared in a Women's World Cup finals tournament. In the tables below, all qualification tournaments where the national team played at least one game are counted as attempts to qualify, even if the team subsequently withdrew or were disqualified. Withdrawals and disqualifications before the start of the qualification are excluded, as are occasions where teams withdrew or were disqualified during their campaign and had all their results from that campaign annulled.
Equatorial Guinea is the least populous nation to ever qualify for the FIFA Women's World Cup, doing so in 2011. 7 national teams have entered all FIFA Women's World Cup qualification tournaments and never qualified. 34 of the 211 current FIFA members have never participated in the FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying, including Saudi Arabia, the only FIFA member with no women's national team.
By confederation
AFC Countries
39 out of the 46 active FIFA and AFC members have not appeared in the FIFA Women's World Cup final tournament.
| Country | Qualifying attempts | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Number | First | Last | |
 | 7 | 1991 | 2019 |
 | 6 | 1999 | 2019 |
 | 5 | 1999 | 2019 |
 | 5 | 1999 | 2019 |
 | 5 | 2003 | 2019 |
 | 5 | 2003 | 2019 |
 | 4 | 1991 | 2019 |
 | 3 | 1999 | 2007 |
 | 3 | 2011 | 2019 |
 | 3 | 2011 | 2019 |
 | 3 | 2011 | 2019 |
 | 2 | 2015 | 2019 |
 | 2 | 2011 | 2015 |
 | 2 | 2007 | 2011 |
 | 1 | 2015 | 2015 |
 | 1 | 2007 | 2007 |
 | 1 | 2019 | 2019 |
 | 1 | 2015 | 2015 |
 | 1 | 2015 | 2015 |
 | 1 | 1991 | 1991 |
 | 1 | 2019 | 2019 |
 | 1 | 2019 | 2019 |
 | 1 | 2019 | 2019 |
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 | 0 | — | — |
 | 0 | — | — |
 | 0 | — | — |
 | 0 | — | — |
 | 0 | — | — |
 | 0 | — | — |
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 | 0 | — | — |
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 | 0 | — | — |
 | 0 | — | — |
 | X | — | — |
CAF Countries
49 out of the 54 active FIFA and CAF members have not appeared in the FIFA Women's World Cup final tournament.
CONCACAF Countries
31 out of the 35 active FIFA and CONCACAF members have not appeared in the FIFA Women's World Cup final tournament.
CONMEBOL Countries
5 out of the 10 active FIFA and CONMEBOL members have never appeared in the FIFA Women's World Cup final tournament.
| Country | Qualifying attempts | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Number | First | Last | |
.svg.png){kind=small} | 7 | 1995 | 2019 |
.svg.png){kind=small} | 7 | 1991 | 2019 |
 | 6 | 1999 | 2019 |
.svg.png){kind=small} | 6 | 1999 | 2019 |
 | 6 | 1999 | 2019 |
OFC Countries
10 out of the 11 active FIFA and OFC members have not appeared in the FIFA Women's World Cup final tournament.
| Country | Qualifying attempts | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Number | First | Last | |
 | 8 | 1991 | 2019 |
 | 4 | 2003 | 2019 |
 | 4 | 2007 | 2019 |
 | 3 | 1999 | 2019 |
 | 3 | 1999 | 2019 |
 | 3 | 2007 | 2019 |
 | 2 | 1999 | 2019 |
 | 2 | 2011 | 2019 |
 | 2 | 2011 | 2019 |
.svg.png){kind=small} | 1 | 2019 | 2019 |
UEFA Countries
43 out of the 55 active FIFA and UEFA members have not appeared in the FIFA Women's World Cup final tournament.
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Footnotes
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References
See also
- List of national teams with no FIFA World Cup appearances
- National team appearances in the FIFA Women's World Cup